I am the man who you met at the party. The one you talked with, laughed with, the man you went home with. I am the man you chatted with all night on your couch, the man who didn't touch you.

Giulia's life is devastated with tragic events and mysteries when she was too young to understand and to bear with the pain. Years passed and she is still suffering. Her parents had secrets, a past life she wasn't aware of. How will she cope when she finds herself dealing with their mistakes. When she finds herself involved with a man she had never seen before.A man too old for her, too forbidden and wrong, yet a man she can't resist. Is he really the person who he tells her he is? Maybe the truth will change everything. It's a fact that the forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest even when it's dangerous. A story of love, passion, risk, danger and secrets. Nothing is ever what it's seems.

THIS IS JUST A SAMPLE OF THE BOOK. THE COMPLETED BOOK, ALONG WITH BOOK 2, IS BEING PUBLISHED BY HACHETTE IN SEPTEMBER 16 AND THE SEQUEL SHORTLY AFTER. The new, publishing version is fully revised and with brand new content. I'm so so excited for you to all read the new and improved version! Thank you SO Much to everyone that read the original completed first draft here on Wattpad and helped me shape it into the revised, extended and edited version that will be published and in STORES NEAR YOU this year. :D xx Jamie Cole has had a hard life and has just been let out of jail for murder. Before he went to jail Jamie ran with the local gang, upon his release he's determined to go straight but will the leader let him? One more job is what he's promised but this one job seems to be leading to two, then three and he's not sure he'll ever escape his old life. He meets Ellie one night at a club, she's just broke up with her long term boyfriend and isn't looking for anything serious which suits them both. Jamie finds himself drawn to her and now he has another reason to change, she knows nothing about his past and he wants to keep it that way.

[This story will become free on June 4, 2025] Jace Hamilton is Reese Burnett's sworn enemy, the culprit who made her high school life hell. But what if this taboo existence returns for the summer and brings back more than just painful memories of yesterday? Suddenly, Reese isn't too sure who or what to trust--or if she can even trust herself. *** For Reese, the day Jace Hamilton--the guy who ruined her entire high school experience--left was the happiest day of her life. No more humiliation and embarrassing moments. But what if she finds out that he's coming back? And what if it's not just the moments that are catching up with her? What if yesterday is also making its comeback? And what if... there's more to the story than what she knew? Can yesterday be rewritten--from love to hate and hate to love, making memories like those of yesterday's?

Zaira, Cyra, and Addie are just three normal teenage girls trying to get through high school. But at every moment of happiness, it seems as if as certain group of people have made it their mission to make their lives as miserable and frustrating as possible...in other words, so-called "boys". Are annoying guys just a part of life, or are they really not as idiotic as the girls thought they were? *Based on TRUE STORIES!*